[windlessstorm]

Tried similar stuff few months back. Start a simple socket listening at port 80. Use any browser to make connection. After recieving any connection on server, send a properly formated HTTP response ( precede with 200 ok and must include content-length, everything else I found was optional). Now scale this to include custom root locations. Extending this to handle all the specifications the thousands of common protocols a server should handle will now feel like headache, so here I didn't continued anymore.

Next I wanted to replace the browser with my own client. Soon realized how huge of a obstacle I was heading towards. Got bogged down by the complexity of a simple browser and still havn't got started on this. Maybe someday :D